Musée Jacquemart André

Jacquemart Andre Museum is one of these hidden jewels of Paris, away from the Touristic highways taking you to the major museums such as the Louvre or Musée d'Orsay.

Located near the Champs Elysée, the museum was created from the private home of Édouard André (1833–1894) and his wife, Nélie Jacquemart (1841-1912) to display the amazing art and furniture they collected during their lives.

In addition to the great collection, the Museum has a very beautiful and cosy Restaurant-Café, where you can enjoy nice meals as we as great deserts. Going to their Sunday Brunch is a very chic experience when in Paris, but you better book in adavnce for a table.

History of the Museum

Édouard André, the scion of a Protestant banking family, devoted his considerable fortune to buying works of art. He then exhibited them in his new mansion built in 1869 by the architect Henri Parent, and completed in 1875.

He married a well-known society painter, Nélie Jacquemart, who had painted his portrait 10 years earlier. Every year, the couple would travel in Italy, amassing one of the finest collections of Italian art in France. When Edouard André died, Nélie Jacquemart completed the decoration of the Italian Museum and travelled in the Orient to add more precious works to the collection. Faithful to the plan agreed with her husband, she bequeathed the mansion and its collections to the Institut de France as a museum, and it opened to the public in 1913.

For more information, check out the Museum's website and Wikipedia PageLess